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Since I Been Down [Available May 24 on various VOD platforms.] Gilda Louise Sheppard's award-winning, powerful, eye-opening, educational, insightful, in-depth, inspirational, 105-minute, 2020 documentary highlighted by striking cinematography that focuses on Washington state prisoners, including Kimonti Carter, Tony Wheat, Willie Nobles (Ginny Parham's son), Andrea Altheimer, Demar Nelson, Andre Parker, Logan Gore, Marco Rodriguez, Michael Santos, and Jarrod Messer, who are using education and programs such as the Black Prisoners' Caucus in an attempt to change and improve all aspects of their lives after some of them were inhumanely and unjustly sentenced as juveniles to life in prison without parole and consists of candid commentary by former detectives John Ringer and Barry McColeman, attorneys Bryan Hershman and Jeff Ellis, Hilltop Tacoma residents (such as Karen Ryan, Virgina Parham, Dominique Scott, and Tonya Wilson [released after 17 years in prison]), anti-racism organizer Mary Flowers, East Side Tacoma residents (such as Shannon Traylor, Billy Griffin, and Dre Walker), The Black Collective community group members Lyle Qusim and James Walton, former Tacoma mayor Harold Moss, Clallam Corrections Center superintendent Jeri Boe, and resident Ma'Shanna Davis who forgave her attacker.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Since I Been Down on the Internet Movie Database